Sex- linked Information

[Dead Rabbit]

That's too bad. I'd be a customer

 

[LindaB220]

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I have two kinds of white rocks. One had the silver gene and will give me sex link with a New Hampshire. The other will not. You just have to know by looking at the babies. One day old silver gene has a grey tinge on the yellow. I only have one pullet and she just started laying yesterday and will try to hatch everyone I can. She is a Blosl white rock and the XW white rocks are still not laying yet. Eventually I will mix the two and get a spectacular bird.

 

[19CBG80]

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I have two kinds of white rocks. One had the silver gene and will give me sex link with a New Hampshire. The other will not. You just have to know by looking at the babies. One day old silver gene has a grey tinge on the yellow. I only have one pullet and she just started laying yesterday and will try to hatch everyone I can. She is a Blosl white rock and the XW white rocks are still not laying yet. Eventually I will mix the two and get a spectacular bird.

I've purchased them on line. And when I got them all the rocks had that grayish tint. Did you hatch out any eggs yet? I've hatched out 34 out of 41 and all were barred.

 

[draye]

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I have two kinds of white rocks. One had the silver gene and will give me sex link with a New Hampshire. The other will not. You just have to know by looking at the babies. One day old silver gene has a grey tinge on the yellow. I only have one pullet and she just started laying yesterday and will try to hatch everyone I can. She is a Blosl white rock and the XW white rocks are still not laying yet. Eventually I will mix the two and get a spectacular bird.

I've purchased them on line. And when I got them all the rocks had that grayish tint. Did you hatch out any eggs yet? I've hatched out 34 out of 41 and all were barred.

I have read that the ones that are a grayish-blue color are the ones that carry the barring gene. I personally don't know if this is true, just passing what I read. The White Rocjs I had were all if the grayish-blue color. I never breed mine to a red rooster bit did to a red sexlink rooster and got a lot of babies that were white with a reddish cast to them and some that looked like sexlink pullets.

 

[19CBG80]

Before I seperated the rocks w/ the roo. I had them mixed with some sex link hen hens. When I incubated the mix of eggs I got a lot of chicks that had the sex link coloring(the correct coloring was chicks from the sex link hens) Do you know if the sex link hens would produce eggs as efficiently as the first generation?

 

[cmom]

Before I seperated the rocks w/ the roo. I had them mixed with some sex link hen hens. When I incubated the mix of eggs I got a lot of chicks that had the sex link coloring(the correct coloring was chicks from the sex link hens) Do you know if the sex link hens would produce eggs as efficiently as the first generation?

I did do some experimenting with breeding Sex-Links. They do not breed true so you will not get a true Sex-Link, however the female chicks will be very good layers and males are good to eat.

 

[cmom]

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I've purchased them on line. And when I got them all the rocks had that grayish tint. Did you hatch out any eggs yet? I've hatched out 34 out of 41 and all were barred.

I have read that the ones that are a grayish-blue color are the ones that carry the barring gene. I personally don't know if this is true, just passing what I read.

The White Rocjs I had were all if the grayish-blue color. I never breed mine to a red rooster bit did to a red sexlink rooster and got a lot of babies that were white with a reddish cast to them and some that looked like sexlink pullets.

Some of the chicks I hatched out were males even though the coloring looked like the female Sex-Links. I did post some pictures in this thread but it has been quite awhile.

 

[farmhand]

I did do some experimenting with breeding Sex-Links. They do not breed true so you will not get a true Sex-Link, however the female chicks will be very good layers and males are good to eat.

Concerning the second generation which I am aware will NOT be sex-linked. I'm looking at Ark Blue (solid blue or black) over California Gray (barred) for sex-linked hens. However I begin to think about keeping a barred Ro to breed back to a solid Ark Blue hen. Would I get all barred? or what % barred? Is this how one adds barring to a breed?

California Gray is Auto-sexing by the type of barring at birth.

 

[19CBG80]

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 I did do some experimenting with breeding Sex-Links. They do not breed true so you will not get a true Sex-Link, however the female chicks will be very good layers and males are good to eat.
Thanks cmom. I was trying to be self sufficient on raising hens for eggs and Roos for meat. Instead of having to purchase golden sex link hens for eggs at the local feed store. I just like the coloring for the golden sex links and know first hand they are excellent layers. Along with keeping a consistent flock color. I started raising the rocks because I thought I read that the GSL offspring would not produce eggs as well. Keep in mind I work on a/c and heating for a living not raise chickens, or teach a genetics class. In summary I will breed the golden sex links back to the NHR roo and the hens that are closest to that GSL color stays the rest is culled. The white rock hen willed be culled as well.

 

[dheltzel]

Concerning the second generation which I am aware will NOT be sex-linked. I'm looking at Ark Blue (solid blue or black) over California Gray (barred) for sex-linked hens. However I begin to think about keeping a barred Ro to breed back to a solid Ark Blue hen. Would I get all barred? or what % barred? Is this how one adds barring to a breed?

California Gray is Auto-sexing by the type of barring at birth.

Barred roos over black/blue/splash hens produce all barred progeny, but the males are only single barred and won't produce all barred offspring.